Lovers Quotes - Page 24

• It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up.

  Josh Billings

  Best Love, Fun, Sensitive

  4 Copy quote

• When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. "Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them." (p.191)

  Orhan Pamuk

  Hurt, Heart, Two

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.191, Faber & Faber

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover

  Leonard Cohen

  Sweaters, White, Four

  4 Copy quote

• Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Beloved, Without Love

  8 Copy quote

• One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Flames, Two, Hypocrisy

  7 Copy quote

• I had hoped to hear everyone discussing how much they missed my altruistic qualities, my legendary skills as a fighter and as a lover." He leered. "Instead, you're making plans for tomorrow. Interesting how life goes on in spite of itself.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Skills, Interesting, Quality

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, MIRA

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's never been my desire to conquer you, Amelia. If you leave this room with me, it must be at my side. As my wife, my lover, my partner ...” His thumb brushed her lip. “My dearest friend.

  Tessa Dare

  Wife, Desire, Thumbs

  4 Copy quote

• It...is for me?" "Aye. So what say you, lover mine.

  J.R. Ward

  Mines

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Envy: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.342, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The problem is all inside your head, she said to me
  The answer is easy if you take it logically
  I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free
  There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

  Paul Simon

  Life, Struggle, Answers

  Song: 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

  Aristotle

  Philosopher, Wonder, Myth

  11 Copy quote

• If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

  David Levithan

  Memories, Accomplishment, Lasting Impressions

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.152, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want him to burn for me, to not be able to go a day without touching me, holding me, caressing me. He'll be an excellent lover. I want a man who knows how to please me.

  Maya Banks

  Men, Please Me, Touching

  Leanne Banks, Catherine Mann, Sara Orwig, Olivia Gates, Katherine Garbera (2009). “One-Click Buy: May 2009 Silhouette Desire: Billionaire Extraordinaire\Propositioned Into a Foreign Affair\Montana Mistress\The Once and Future Prince\The Moretti Arrangement\The Tycoon's Rebel Bride”, p.547, Silhouette

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ..he wanted her. And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.

  Sarah MacLean

  Men, Hesitation, Wanted

  4 Copy quote

• If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.

  Richard Brautigan

  Two, Clothes, Together

  Richard Brautigan, “Romeo And Juliet”

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• He leaned a fraction closer. “My lovers have always been warrior women. Strength intrigues me.” She refused to let him play with her like this, even if her body disagreed. Vehemently. “Do knives intrigue you, too? Because touch me and I will cut you up. I don’t care if you throw me off the nearest balcony.

  Nalini Singh

  Warrior, Cutting, Knives

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.47, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seize those beating wings, and bear them all down together into the abyss.

  Philip Pullman

  Mother, Heart, Angel

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become a ritual for us, as it does for all lovers: where, when, why? remember...I understand even old people rehearse their private religion of how they first loved, most guarded of secrets. And he would answer, sleep blurring his words, "Because I had to." The question and the answer were always the same. Why? Because I had to.

  Margaret George

  Lying, Sleep, Night

  Margaret George (2010). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel”, p.751, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Blue, Hands, Names

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.150, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

  Mitch Albom

  Children, Responsibility, Should Have

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.93, Broadway Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

  David James Duncan

  World, May, Duty

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.516, Dial Press

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thing that you are too young to understand is that we all hide things. We hide them from our lovers because we wish to present our best selves, but also because if it is real love, we expect our loved one to simply understand it, without needing to ask. In a true partnership, the kind that lasts through the ages, there is an unspoken communion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Self, Wish

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2023, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned,” I murmured. Warren—who had once, a long time ago, been a cowboy—snickered and wiggled his bare feet. “It could be the beginning of either a bad joke or a horror story.” “No,” said Kyle, the lawyer, whose head was propped up on my thigh. “If you want a horror story, you have to start out with a werewolf, his gorgeous lover, and a walker.

  Patricia Briggs

  Queens, Cowboy, Horror Stories

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.641, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Hands, Calculators, Ifs

  6 Copy quote

• You should always judge a book by its lovers.

  Ashok K. Banker

  Book, Judging, Should

  4 Copy quote

• So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple tops
  And they couldn't grow up any higher;
  So they twin'd themselves into a true lover's knot,
  For all lovers true to admire.

  Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell

  Life, Growing Up, Church

  4 Copy quote